New Reading Material

I just got Sean Stewart's Passion Play from Amazon. His other novels have amazed me--especially Resurrection Man, Nobody's Son, and Galveston. He draws incredibly involving worlds with characters that are at almost perfect in their believability.

Passion Play was his first novel--and this is the description on the back of the book:

It is a dark time. The great cities are dying, like the country, from the heart out. The Redemption Presidency tolerates vigilantes who kill according to Biblical example. The police subcontract freelancers to bring criminals for quick and televised execution.

Diane Fletcher is one of these freelancers: a "shaper" cursed with the gift of seeing and feeling the emotions of others. Armed with hunter skills, she takes on the mysterious death of Mask, a great actor found electrocuted in the costume of a demon. But even a shaper can become lost in the human labyrinth, where patterns of innocence, guilt, passion and deception lead inevitably into that treacherous territory between justice and vengeance.

I can't wait to dive in (although I'll try to finish Snow Crash first).

The problem with Sean Stewart, though, is that he seems to have stopped writing. One of my favorite new authors, and he hasn't written anything in years. His official Web site is dead, and I can't find anything about new novels or works in progress.

Damned shame; he was a voice in current science fiction that actually kept me reading.

Posted by zombyboy at September 29, 2003 03:26 PM | TrackBack